Jeff Beck Quotes & Sayings
13 most famous Jeff Beck quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's an 80 year old British musician born on Jun 24, 1944.
“I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.”
“I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?”
“I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.”
“I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don't have too much of it.”
“If I'm on form and I'm not being bothered too much by mental problems or whatever, I can whip out something good. That's why I've done quite a few overdubs for Tina Turner and things like that, because even before she made this comeback I said yes to her, just because I love Tina Turner.”
“I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio - much to my parent's disapproval.”
“I play purely from the heart, y'know, and so if it doesn't work the first couple of hours, forget it.”
“I'm a very emotional person. If I've got something on my mind, that would stop me from giving my best.”
“Sometimes when I do an overdub solo, they'll keep four or five of my attempts and then mix the bits that they like to make a solo up out of them. It's not against the rules, really - I can learn my own solos, then. But that's the whole beauty of multi-track recording, isn't it?”
“I try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of effects, but when you don't do that and just let the genuine sound come through, there's a whole magic there.”
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